Saturday, May 31, 2014

Roku UK Channel Store - Weekly RoundUp #64

Hi, everyone !!

Not much in terms of Roku-related news to bring you this time around although, as with last week, there have been plenty of new channels added to the channel store which should keep you going between now and next weekend when (hopefully) we will have some snippets of information worth sharing with you. Meanwhile... for those of you who missed my tweet on the subject, during the past seven days, via the companion Twitter Feed to this blog: @ukrokuchannels - the Roku Streaming Stick (HDMI Version) [Model: 3500EU] is NOW AVAILABLE via Amazon UK and you will find all the product information VIA THIS LINK. In their usual (un)timely fashion, Roku have not yet seen fit to update the "Where to Buy" information on the "Official" Roku UK website to reflect this, so I thought I'd mention it here for the benefit of all visitors to this blog who may be considering a purchase. You'll also find some good deals on other UK Roku models, at this time, including the original flagship UK player: Roku 2 XS which you can (currently) snap-up for HALF-PRICE at only £49.98 and can be found HERE if you're interested. As far as I'm concerned, you're better of buying the Roku 2 XS at that price than the newer 'Roku 1', because of all the additional features (ethernet, USB, MicroSD, motion control, etc) that it offers. So hurry up and GET 'EM WHILE YOU STILL CAN !!!!

Anyway, let's now press on with the details for the current 'Weekly RoundUp' of NEW ADDITIONS to the "Official" Roku UK Channel Store. This time, there are TWENTY-FOUR NEW CHANNELS which have been added during the past seven days. These latest additions to the channel line-up have provided us with FRESH CONTENT in the Film & TV, Music, Internet TV, International, Food, Special Interest, Screensavers & Apps, plus Religion & Spirituality genres (i.e. categories).

In keeping with previous installments from the 'Weekly RoundUp' series, details of these new channels have all been listed below, together with links to obtain further information {by clicking on the channel name(s) beneath the respective channel icon(s) as pictured} and to read a 'Roku Guide' review (where available) with an independent (slightly more expansive) assessment of each one:-

Anyway, like it or not, thatis your lot for this week and, whilst it doesn't quite the match-up to the twenty-seven channels which made it into the "Official" Roku USA Channel Store during the same time-frame, I always think it's better to have SOME NEW CHOICES than none at all, don't you ?!!

Still, hopefully everyone in the UK with a Roku player managed to find something they like within the twenty-four channels outlined above. If not, then you'll just have to pay us a visit another time when, with any luck, there will be something more to your liking. Afterall, there's no point installing every channel because, as I've said before, when it comes to adding new channels to your Roku player, IT'S YOUR CHOICE and, as with all things Roku... THE CHOICE IS ALWAYS YOURS !!

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In the meantime, for my last forty-two 'Weekly RoundUp' posts, I have been suggesting we spare a thought for all the poor folk who handed over their hard-earned cash for one of those NowTV Boxes [Powered by Sky] which, as I keep saying, have (so far) totally failed to live up to their full potential. Likewise, the original promise from NowTV of "more apps being continually added", is yet to be adhered to, since there has been ONLY ONE NEW CHANNEL ADDED to the Roku Channel Store on the NowTV Box SINCE THE PRODUCT LAUNCHED. Given the continued failure by the so-called "developers" at NowTV to add any new channels to the (severely reduced) Roku Channel Store that features on the NowTV Box, it is (perhaps) unsurprising that we have seen one or two notices for job vacancies at NowTV in recent weeks. However, that doesn't prevent their latest recruitment drive from being perceived as unfathomable, not to mention unnecessary, to say the very least...